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Sendhil Mullainathan
Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, Chicago Booth
Sendhil Mullainathan is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and especially medicine, where computational techniques have the potential to uncover biomedical insights from large-scale health data. He currently teaches a course on Artificial Intelligence. In past work he has combined insights from economics and behavioral science with causal inference tools—lab, field, and natural experiments—to...
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